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Optima Health (AIM: OPT) saw its shares slip after announcing an agreement to buy PAM Healthcare Limited for around £100 million. The purchase is subject to clearance under the Irish Foreign Direct Investment regime and will be funded through a combination of new debt facilities and a bridge loan. Management expects the acquisition to drive signifi…
Deutsche Bank strategists estimate that the current cycle of individual tax refunds, which runs through mid-April, could channel about $11 billion a week into U.S. equities. Bank economists project an extra $50 billion to $100 billion in refunds this season and say the payments could support consumer spending, but note that weaker fiscal stimulus c…
Shares of Barratt Redrow fell just over 2% on Monday after Deutsche Bank reduced its price target by 15% and cut underlying pre-tax profit forecasts for fiscal years 2026 through 2028. The broker pointed to deteriorating trading conditions, pressure on margins and order books, and a significant £1.3bn remediation provision that will weigh on cash g…
The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) reported a 5.2% quarterly drop in net asset value to 104 pence per share, citing lower consultant revenue forecast curves, a 50 basis point increase in UK offshore wind discount rates, and operational shortfalls that left fourth-quarter generation 5% below budget. Management kept its fiscal 2026 dividend t…
Several of the world’s largest technology companies have seen sharp drops in market capitalization this year as investors question whether heavy investments in artificial intelligence will deliver near-term returns. Microsoft and Amazon led declines among the biggest names, while chipmakers and retail names posted gains over the same period.
Sanlorenzo SpA reported fourth-quarter 2025 figures showing a 10.1% year-on-year rise in order intake to €253 million, revenues for new yachts of €270 million that matched analyst forecasts, and a net backlog reaching €1,002 million. EBITDA for Q4 was €53 million, with a margin of 19.5% slightly above consensus, while full-year results met revenue …
Solutions by STC reported fourth-quarter results that missed analyst forecasts and left full-year revenue growth well below management guidance. Revenue growth decelerated to 4.7% year-over-year in Q4 after earlier gains, and the company closed fiscal 2025 with 5.5% revenue growth versus a guided 8-10% range. Margins contracted and the performance …
Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group reported FY25 revenue of SAR 13,707 million, a 22% increase year-over-year, and operating profit of SAR 2,619 million, up 19%. Operating margin narrowed to 19.1% from 21.0% a year earlier. Net income was SAR 2,401 million and the company declared a SAR 1.31 per share dividend for Q4. UBS retains a Neutral rating w…
CAPZA, part of BNP Paribas Asset Management Alternatives (EURONEXT:BNP), announced the first closing of its CAPZA Private Debt 7 fund with almost 1.4 billion euros in commitments. The initial raise already exceeds half of the capital collected for the preceding fund and draws significant participation from both returning partners and new investors,…
ReNew Energy reported a 54% year-over-year rise in adjusted Ebitda for the third quarter, delivering 21.38 billion rupees and beating analyst expectations of 17.05 billion rupees. Revenue climbed 36% to 25.14 billion rupees. The company raised the lower bound of its fiscal 2026 adjusted Ebitda guidance to a range of 90 billion to 93 billion rupees,…
Alibaba on Feb 16 introduced Qwen3.5, an AI model engineered to carry out complex tasks autonomously. The company says the model is significantly cheaper and faster on heavy workloads than its predecessor, adds visual agentic features for taking actions across apps, and shows benchmark advantages over several leading U.S. models. The move comes ami…
UK data science firm Physiomics reported a 51% year-on-year increase in first-half revenue to £498,000, its strongest six-month intake to date. Despite the revenue milestone, the company recorded a wider operating loss driven by onboarding and contractor costs. The firm launched a new Biometrics service line during the period, securing four initial…
Shares of Norsk Hydro fell after two brokerages highlighted persistent weakness in the company’s downstream extrusion operations. RBC Capital Markets downgraded the stock from outperform to sector perform and lowered its price target, while Kepler Cheuvreux adjusted cost and price assumptions but left its overall 2026 EBIT estimate unchanged. Both …
European equities moved modestly higher on Monday with financial stocks providing the main lift. The STOXX 600 index rose 0.3% to 619.74 by 0810 GMT, led in part by gains in Spain’s bank-heavy benchmark. Investors are preparing for several corporate earnings reports later in the week and a euro zone industrial production read that is expected to sh…
New Delhi is hosting the India AI Impact Summit, bringing together senior executives from major AI firms and several world leaders. India is emphasizing large-scale deployment and application-driven AI rather than the development of frontier foundational models, and is using the summit to amplify perspectives from developing nations. The event has …
SkinBioTherapeutics has opened an internal investigation into former CEO Stuart Ashman following allegations that a material royalty payment was included in reported 2025 revenue due to potential misrepresentation. The company will reverse £770,000 in royalty income - a 17% haircut to reported 2025 revenue - triggering a deeper adjusted EBITDA loss…
European stocks advanced modestly on Monday amid a broadly constructive earnings season, even as trading volumes were muted because of holidays in Asia and the United States. Key indexes in Germany, France and the U.K. rose, while miners and scheduled corporate reports dominated the week’s market focus. Economic and geopolitical developments, inclu…
Jefferies upgraded ACS from hold to buy and lifted its price target to €116, saying the market is not fully valuing the company's greenfield infrastructure pipeline. The brokerage's revised sum-of-the-parts model explicitly incorporates secured data-center capacity and the U.S. SR-400 express-lane project, producing an implied equity stub roughly €…
RBC Capital Markets lowered its recommendation on Schroders Plc to "sector perform" from "outperform," saying the stock now trades close to the value implied by Nuveen's 612p-per-share proposal. The brokerage raised its price target to 610p and noted the deal's structure - including irrevocable commitments representing roughly 42% of Schroders' sha…
Japan's equity market closed modestly lower on Monday, with the Nikkei 225 ending down 0.22% as declines in the Paper & Pulp, Transport and Communication sectors outweighed gains in several individual stocks. Market breadth was positive but notable individual moves pushed some large-cap names sharply higher and others sharply lower. Volatility edge…
Average asking prices for newly listed UK homes were effectively unchanged in February, easing by just £12 to £368,019 after a sharp 2.8% increase in January. Rightmove's monthly index, covering 106,287 new listings between Jan. 11 and Feb. 7, shows buyers enjoying improved conditions as wage growth outpaces recent property inflation and mortgage c…
Uruguay intends to accelerate a move away from dollar-denominated sovereign debt and broaden its trade relationships, driven by strong investor demand for local-currency instruments and the desire to reduce exposure to external currency shocks. Finance Minister Gabriel Oddone said the government plans to issue about half its debt in pesos, expects …
Olympus Corp. saw its stock tumble after revising down its fiscal net profit forecast and reporting a decline in adjusted quarterly profit. The company cited higher expenses, weaker U.S. sales of gastrointestinal endoscopes and voluntary shipment suspensions following U.S. FDA re-inspections as factors driving the cut.
The S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.22% in Sydney, pushed higher by gains in the information technology, consumer discretionary and industrials sectors. Small-cap winners included Austal, Wisetech Global and Genesis Minerals, while Summerset, Treasury Wine Estates and Fortescue were among the biggest decliners. Market breadth favoured advancers and implied…
European companies are reporting stronger fourth-quarter earnings than analysts anticipated, with a majority of market capitalisation now disclosed and average growth ahead of expectations. Yet lofty valuations, a stronger euro, mixed sector performance and lingering tariff effects are restraining share-price responses and leaving investors demandi…
